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> Binary log files, which are also prone to corruption and crashes

Why are they more prone to corruption? Software bugs aside they should actually be less prone to corruption, because they allow you to verify if corruption has happened. syslog has no such mechanism.

> Unnecessarily complicated and unfamiliar init script structure. I feel like I went from one that was arguably too verbose to one which is too vague.

Yeah, right...

> The need for unnecessary things like dbus to be run at startup

Why is dbus unnecessary? It’s a great way to do IPC. So great that it will be implemented in the kernel as kdbus.

> Complication of some simple configuration tasks (in my experience on Arch at least, network configuration was a bitch)

The init system was never responsible for setting up your network. Even before systemd, Arch recommended netcfg/netctl instead of setting it up in /etc/rc.conf.